Tag Archives: Queer

While writing their 2019 memoir High School, Canadian musicians Tegan and Sara Quin joked that their coming-of-age story — which recounts the twin sisters’ lives as queer teens in 1990s Calgary — would make for a great TV show. Soon after the New York Times bestseller was published, that joke …

When Rebekah Patenaude was in high school, she went to prom with a male date. Not because she wanted to — she would have preferred no date at all — but because it was important to her friend.  “It was really awkward,” recalls Patenaude, 24, who started identifying as queer when she …